Questions tagged [behavior]
Why do children act the way they do? Use [discipline] for questions about enforcing your rules.
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How do we get our daughter to tell us the real reason?
We have a 2,5 year old daughter. When I attempt to do something for her (be it warming her milk, changing her clothes or picking her up from the highchairs), most of the time she says "Don't do it. I ...
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3 year old cries when the teacher raise her voice
My 3 year old daughter cries every time her teacher raise her voice.For instance, during art subject when the teacher saw her using red color instead black and told her "No, Jesse please use black"....
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Seven month baby won't sleep or nap for short period
My little one, has been very much disturbing lately as i work from home and my mrs is house wife. We recently shifted to our own place and bought my baby a lot of toys (although he had many before), ...
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how to teach a child to keep calm when encountering a setback
My 2-year old boy likes to pipe up a stack of wooden toy pieces and ferry it from one place to another.
Once the balance is lost and the wooden pieces fall in the process he becomes very upset and ...
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Acting up for Daddy
My partner's 4 year old daughter lives with us. I look after her more than my partner. She is generally well behaved, polite little girl and we have lots of fun. As soon as Daddy comes home she turns ...
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My son is discouraged
I have a 10-yr-old son.
He's a fifth grader right now and I have been really worried about his attitude toward homework and everything that has to do with studying. He constantly calls himself stupid ...
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How to encourage a child to speak truth about the wrong deeds she has done?
I have a close relationship with my 3 year old child. This means that since I have told her that I hate lies and love truth so she should speak the truth with her parents at least all the time, she ...
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Purposely walking slowly to/from preschool?
Every morning before going to work, I walk our 4 years old son to the preschool located 15 minutes from home ; and his little brother too (in a stroller).
Every evening after work, my wife walks them ...
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How to deal with an 18-month-old toddler pretending to not understand what we say to him?
I have an 18-month-old and a 3-year-old son. It seems that the younger is growing up more slowly than the older one did. For instance, he doesn't speak yet, he walked late in comparison with his ...
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Child afraid from diving head into water
My child has a phobia when diving his head down the water. Is there any entertainment exercise we can do or any other suggestions?
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Why is my daughter shouting so much?
My ten months old daughter has been in a little nursery for a couple of months now. There, she has begun to act more wildly. It is something we expected and we like her getting in touch with other ...
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Are my 5-year-old's behavioral problems at daycare normal? [duplicate]
My five-year-old son will be six in August. It's been a rollercoaster ride since he's been two. I'm feeling lost and failed as a parent. Me and his father are divorced since he's been two and we keep ...
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Why is my granddaughter screaming in the middle of the night like something is wrong but calms down in about 10-15 min? [duplicate]
My granddaughter wakes up around 1:30 every night screaming and tightening her body up like something is going on. This just started about a week ago. Could she be having a bad dream?
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Should I worry About My 10yo Nephew's Interest in Violence?
I have a 10yo nephew who is obsessed with violence. It's all he talks about. He asks me and my father things like;
If I had a gun and you had a knife, could you kill me?
If I start doing ...
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Where can I get help for my 13-year-old daughter whose tantrums get physical?
I have a 13-year-old daughter. She has had a tantrum tonight after her and her sister got in a little argument. My 13-year-old daughter got to the point where she got physical with my other daughter. ...
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child unable to do anything alone
our 5 yr old grandchild cannot tolerate being alone when at home. Even if someone is in the next room, she has to go there.
She needs someone to read and stay with her while she goes to sleep. Can't ...
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My girlfriend's children are the worst acting children I have ever met
I have been with someone for almost a year now and her children have steadily been getting worse. She has three boys and their father is hit and miss in their lives.
The oldest who is 9 lies ...
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teens nagging at each others
The kids of my GF, 14 and 11 respectively, have that annoying tendancy to nag at each other when night time is coming. Teen girl likes to pout and teenage boy thinks himself as some kind of prima ...
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How unusual is it for a 3.5-year-old to scratch his own face and draw blood?
A 3.5-year-old child we know was sat down for misbehaving and then scratched his own face drawing blood. We wondered how common this was and how it may be stopped from happening again.
How unusual is ...
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Teenage son talks to self
My son talks to himself, often in the shower, and stops when I'm aware of it.
He is 17, and in a demanding program in college.
He is elite, he is on the rowing team and the debate club. He doesn't ...
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Is it possible to spoil a child, but still teach them not to behave spoiled?
My 9-year-old stepson has terrible tantrums. I was abused as a child and used to act out as a result. Teachers and other adults were very hostile to me and failed to recognize my cries for help. So ...
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Is it normal for a 2-year-old girl to throw 30 min tantrums several times per day?
My 2-year-old daughter throws extremely bad tantrums that last at least 30 minutes. She's pulling her hair, throwing things, hitting, kicking, biting people, hiding under things. They happen about 1-3 ...
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How to prevent infants from rolling out of bed?
My seven months old daughter is rolling quite a lot nowadays. This is cute when she is awake and we are present.
However, lately she is also rolling in her bed during the night, when she awakes for a ...
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Three months crying a lot. Cannot determine reason
My baby just turned 3 months old and he is crying a lot, he is hard to put to sleep as well as he fights it and cry a lot. We tried everything, changing his pampers on time, milk on time, give him ...
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My 7 year old Son is out of control and has been expelled from school [closed]
My 7yr old son Josh is out of control. I can't leave him alone with his brother, I cant go shopping with him, I cant drive with him in the car, he wont sleep, he cant go to school and I cant cope. ...
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How should my 8 year old son deal with a girl who hits him?
My kid is 8 yrs old. This morning he asked me, "Mummy, you told me if a girl hits you don't strike her back. Should I continue to get hittings from her just because she's a girl?"
I was unable to ...
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14-month year old takes dinner in bath only
Unfortunately we have gotten into the habit of feeding dinner to our 14-month old mostly in the bath. It started around the time he turned one, at first as a means to get him to eat at all when he was ...
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6 Year old son behavior problems at school and now at home
My son is 6, 7 next month. He's having a lot of problems at school.
At the beginning of the year he was getting tallies and notes sent home because he was hitting, pushing, kicking other kids at ...
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When does a child start showing jealousy?
At what age is it normal for a child to begin showing signs of jealousy of other children?
I ask because my 13-month-old God daughter seemed like she was a little resentful of another child who was ...
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34 month old refuses to swallow or spit out food
He refuses to swallow or spit out his food. We are at a loss on how to combat this issue as he won't just hold it in his mouth for half n hour. We are talking 3 HOURS + HERE! The only reason he spat ...
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Why does my 8-week-old son try to fit his fist up his nose?
My 8-week-old son tries to fit his fist up his nose (that's what it looks like). He makes a fist and forcefully pushes it toward his nose or just to the sides or under, shaking his head and making a ...
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What to do about my infant who sucks his thumb constantly?
My 5 month baby boy is always sucking on his thumb non stop.
Is it okay for him to do it while he's asleep? I try to take it away and he just wont let me.
Sometimes he makes him self sick so I am ...
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Is this behavior (nipple pushing and other behaviors) a problem?
We have a 2 year old son. He is our first child. Recently we've started noticing some weird behavior. Below are the behaviors we have observed.
When he is with me, sometimes he lifts my shirt and ...
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Why do babies fight sleep and how to calm them down?
My nice of 9 months is crying to fight sleep. Why does she do that? How can one calm her down?
It's absolutely silly to watch :). She sits there and everything is all right. As soon as she falls ...
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Getting child to focus
I have an 8 year old daughter that has a hard time focusing in everything she does. Don't get me wrong, she can focus when she wants to and if it's something that's she is interested in.
The other ...
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How do you teach a toddler how to wait?
My toddler (21 months old), like most, is not a very patient person. For example, when it's dinner time, she wants to sit in her high chair and begins whining and complaining tearfully while her food ...
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Improving a parent preference?
My wife and I arrived at my in-laws today at the end of a 3 day couple's retreat away from the kids (3yr8m boy and 1yr10m boy). We were both very excited to see the kids again and wondered if they ...
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How to Handle 5 Year Old Disrespect/Not Listening in Public?
Our 5-year-old daughter is a very smart, sweet, and usually well-behaved girl. She usually hates to get in trouble and responds well to correction. However, lately she has been getting into some ...
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How to stop my 8 year old son from doubting and/or speaking against the existence of God? [closed]
I am a Muslim, and so is my husband. Our 8 year old son is refusing to learn how to offer namaz and does not offer prayers either, and in his school, he has been slapped and beaten by teachers for ...
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Ways to convince a teenager to quit smoking
I'm 23 years old and I have a sister that is very soon turning 17. She lives with my parents and I live abroad for a couple of years now.
My mother noticed that my sister started smoking around 1 ...
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How do I instil confidence when my child (aged 5 nearly 6) declines to read a book as 'too hard' when sent home from school as homework?
My daughter is 5 (nearly 6) and approaching the end of Kindergarten. She brings home three books to read every day for a week from school (new ones every week).
Today she said:
No I don't want to ...
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How to deal with older sibling taking after the younger - toddler?
We have a lovely 4,5 year old boy who's learned to be independent in many daily activities (e.g. eating, getting dressed up, taking a shower (supervised)...). Until recently he's generally been acting ...
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Motivation for my 25 year old daughter
How can I get my 25 year old daughter to be motivated to finish her degree, get a job and start looking after her appearance? She still behaves as if she is 15 years old. All she wants to do is ...
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Our 6 months old son wants to walk. Can this be problematic?
Our 6 months old son wants to walk and gets upset if either of us won't support him while he's doing so. He can't crawl yet, can't sit up without tipping over eventually, and he can't stand on his own....
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Should I worry about my 18-month-old always staying with us, her parents, only?
My 18-month-old kid is always with me and my wife. She never goes along with the neighbors or our relatives. My sister's kid is one month younger than my kid, and she plays with everybody while my kid ...
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How do I stop my parents' divorce? [duplicate]
I'm a new teen, and my parents have been fighting for like a month like five times a week.
One of them leaves at night for like six hours, my mom says she doesn't think it's working out. They have ...
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How can I reach out to my 16-year-old son who has voiced he's depressed every day and doesn't love himself?
Last night my husband and I addressed a few things we discovered in my son's room being a concern. We are pretty strict parents and believe in corporal punishment especially since my son doesn't have ...
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Why do babies suck their fist?
My daughter is almost four months old. Few weeks ago she discovered and started having a lot of fun with her little hands: she keeps putting them in her mouth, she loves playing with the toys, etc.
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Extremely difficult 11 month old baby
I have an extremely fussy baby boy. He just turned 11 months old, while he's never been an "easy" baby, the past month he has been awful. He sleeps well and eats well, but when up all he does is cry ...
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Cannot cope with my 12 year old bully
I am really struggling with my 12 year old. TBH we have always had problems but he is getting worse. He is nasty, calling me an idiot, retard. Just gone off to school and wrecked the kitchen by ...
